"Leo Apotheker's disastrous tenure as HP's CEO revealed a dysfunctional company struggling for direction after a decade of missteps and scandals. Can his replacement, Meg Whitman, fix the tech giant?" As a consumer, I wish they simplified their product line-up. They have the engineering skills - I just have no idea what I'm supposed to buy when I visit their site. The choice for the ZenBook late last year instead of anything HP had to offer was elementary.
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Recently they reisued the HP-15C. All of the "Voyager" series are terrific. I have them all, except for the HP-10C.
And I'd kill to get my hands on a HP-71B.
I am not old enough to like those kind of calculators but I really like the TI82-TI83. Can I buy an android app that works the same?
Edited 2012-05-10 13:00 UTC
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...I wish they'd stop pre-loading their computers with SO. MUCH. CRAPWARE. My girlfriend bought a decent HP laptop a while back, and I spent hours deleting 15+ utterly useless apps -- most of which are called HP-something, but they all have separate uninstall entries in the control panel -- just to make it boot and function normally.
If I was less tech savvy, I would have probably concluded "HP laptops are slow and terrible" and avoided the brand in the future. Not that other PC manufacturers don't bundle crapware, but I am under the impression that HP is worse than most.
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I don't care how much crapware they load on, as long as I get a genuine Windows install disc with the computer. The first thing I do when I get a PC like that is format and reinstall clean. If they won't provide a DVD and insist that the 'restore partition' is good enough, that is a deal-breaker for me. I don't even mind paying a little extra to get the install disc, since I know that the crapware is probably where most of their profits are coming from.
As for HP computers in general, I figure if they're selling them at Wal-mart, that's probably one brand I should avoid like the plague.
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WorknMan,
"I don't care how much crapware they load on, as long as I get a genuine Windows install disc with the computer. The first thing I do when I get a PC like that is format and reinstall clean."
Last month I bought a new win7 computer for someone, it fatally crashed on the third boot, and even system recovery failed to fix it. I was tempted to return the whole system but there were no hardware faults, so I did a reinstall from the supplied OEM DVD, with no crashes yet.
However the DVD did reinstall all the OEM bloatware, which I had to go through and remove a second time. So my question is, how can you get a clean windows install without purchasing a clean version of it separately?
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Dell's reinstall disks are clean and work like vanilla Windows disks.
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I think that Dell are pretty much alone there. Asus, too, make you burn by yourself a tweaked restore image that takes up no less than 5 DVDs !
Pretty ugly practice for a company that otherwise produces flawless hardware for an attractive price. But well, real geeks don't use OEM-provided OS images, I guess...
Edited 2012-05-10 18:00 UTC
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Great article, thanks for posting it.
Technically astute people don't buy HP PCs any more. They are are loaded with crapware and lack a Windows disk (a recovery partition is not enough). They also have marginally-useful proprietary tweaks.
In the server space HP doesn't surround their HP-branded hardware with the useful software competitors offer. Compaq-branded servers are hanging in there much better.
If Ms. Whitman can turn the HP mess around, maybe she'll have proved she would have been a good Governor after all. I'd hesitate to make any quick conclusions about her efforts. It might take years to get to an accurate judgement on her results.
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